I was trained in lock-picking, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, voice-throwing, trap-making, trap-finding, and not a half-bad archer, fiddler, and knife-fighter besides. Often humorous, occasionally horrifying, and sometimes incredibly poignant,I love every single pageof this book. I was initially very intrigued by The Blacktongue Thief, with its wisecracking narrator thief and female w He finds love on the way (at least for a moon cycle or so), and also ends up not murdering and befriending (sort of) someone who wanted to kill him. He is the winner of the 2007 Bridport Prize in Poetry and a finalist for the 2008 Forward Prize for best poem (UK).

I was charmed, often left dazed or horrified, but thoroughly entertained from the very beginning to the very end. In other words, the “world-building” element of the novel works so well because the reader learns about the world from the characters who live in it, rather than big info dumps. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog Penny and her husband Jon, and she loves books more than most things.I like Galva because she’s this hardened, haunted, lethal soldier – but she likes good wine and a long hot bath when she can get one, and she’s not humorless, though you have to pay attention to catch it. In fact, an argument could be made that The Tyranny of Faith is a full-on Fantasy/horror hybrid, what with its resurrected dead being piloted by far away magickers, its unfathomable gods, and a persistent extradimensional soul-sucker with a moth’s head but a sharp-toothed human mouth. My career as a professional insultor on the renaissance festival circuit definitely informed Kinch’s language,” Buehlman explains. Spanths don’t take threats well—I was all but sure if we moved, it would be to kill, not intimidate.

I’d like to tell you it had belonged to my da or something, but my da was a sad bastard miner and couldn’t play the arse-horn after a quart of beans and cabbage. I pulled and loosed first, feeling the good release of pressure in my fingers and the bite of the bowstring on my inner arm.I also think folks who had a lot of fun with Nicholas Eames’s Kings of the Wyld and Bloody Rose as well Tyler Whiteside’s Ardor Benn novels will find a great deal to enjoy in Buehlman’s tale of sarcastic thief on a quest. She had a round shield on her back, a gorget to save her throat a cutting, and if I didn’t miss my guess, she wore light chain mail under her shirt. We talked to author Christopher Buehlman about his transition from horror to high fantasy in the much-anticipated The Blacktongue Thief. This isn’t exact or formulaic, as it can be in poetry, but it needs to have its own internal rhythm.